Is it a quantitative, factual, physical property of the object or is it a qualitative, mental subjective property? ... The commonest answers are thus: colours are mental properties of visual states (subjectivism), they are physical properties of physical objects (physicalism), or they are dispositions of physical objects to produce visual states of colour (dispositionalism). ... They say that there is no distinction between an object's physical colour, and what is perceived by the viewer. ... Colour is an attribute which is attached subjectively yet it is activated by certain object...

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Both physical and mental events could thus be explained using pure physical principals and laws. ... This theory became greatly advanced during the time of Descartes by Thomas Hobbes whose argument goes as follows: Premise 1: Physical motion in the material world can only produce further physical events, while immaterial events can only produce further mental events. ... Humans have feelings, emotions, sensations, etc. that are not just sequences of "physical brain occurrences." Whether or not such physical sequences in the brain cause these immaterial events is of no matter. ... Premi...

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First, I will introduce and explain the two types of art styles that I have personally categorized, the materialistic and the unmaterialistic, along with analyzing their characteristics and differences. ... The first, the materialistic, composes of those that concern mainly with material aspects of the artwork, e.g. the characteristics of the lines, the colors, and how things are observed and represented. ... And now onto the extreme of physical replication. ... The painting was so close to physical reality that it is difficult to tell it from a photograph. ... Which means that to certain deg...

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The studies suggest that thoughts have an inextricable link to physical experiences. ... However, thought is a system, which takes places in the brain simultaneously in relation to the body and physical environment around us. ... When individuals use their motor experience and physical perceptions to construct simulations in the mind, the physical characteristics responsible for a person's systematic interaction with the environment causes individuals to acquire different lines of thought. ... These thoughts are not triggered by the brain, but enter the brain from an outside source that i...

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He tried to use psycho-physical method (lifting weights) to measure acuteness of perception, and thus-he thought-intelligence. ... Titchener's system which had all these characteristics except dualism. ... Just as physicists sought to discover the basic particles that make up physical matter, Titchener wanted to identify the basic elements of conscious experience. ...

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Descartes" Theory of Substance Dualism Throughout the history of man, philosophers have tried to come up with an explanation of where our minds, or consciousness, came from and how we are able to have a nonphysical characteristic of ourselves. Does our physical brain automatically give us nonphysical characteristics like feelings, thoughts, and desires or is there something else there, the mind, that interacts with our bodies and makes us feel, think, and desire? ... Meaning that events and states in our mind can cause physical events in our bodies and vice versa. For example, you step on some...

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The objective of psychology is to figure out why people think, feel, act, and do what they do; to anticipate what, when, and how they will do it, and to change the parts of human behavior that cause us emotional, mental, and at times physical pain. ... His hypothesis is that species that are born with certain characteristics, e.g., strong legs, good eyesight, strong heart and other positive attributes, will pass these traits on to their offspring, thus, their offspring will enjoy the same advantages. If the surrounding environment gradually changes, it may come to pass that new characteris...

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The "sound itself is the result of the physical and physiological processes initiated by the fallen tree" (Landesman, 18). ... He believed that "colour is to be identified with some of the physical features in nature responsible for our sense awareness of colour." ... He does not discuss the word "colour" at all, he is speaking about the characteristics which colour possesses and is systematically relating the two together. ... If these two characteristics where not in my life I think I would know this and my li! ...

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Some people develop with a combination of male and female physical characteristics, despite being genetically male or female. ... Hormones such as estrogens (female sex hormones) and also testosterone (male sex hormones) guide the physical development of sex characteristics and behaviors. ...

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Furthermore according to this model the brain has a certain criteria for filtering information and this is based on the physical properties of the sensory information, for instance voice (who is speaking), location (which ear is the information being spoken in). ... In Treisman's model the incoming stimuli is briefly held in a sensory register, where they are analyzed by an attenuation filter on the basis of crude physical characteristics. These characteristics act as threshold of attenuation. ...

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Abstract Many people do not see baseball as a mental sport, but baseball is considered to be ninety percent mental and ten percent physical. ... Baseball is one of the only sports that requires just as much mental training as physical training in order to be successful. ... The automatic brain is a phenomenal characteristic to any baseball player at any level. ... Lastly, the mental toughness in a player displays his true composure as well as his physical and mental ability to react confidently and positively to any given situation. ...

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This made men spiritually strong compared to women, and this is evident from Reis' saying, "The representation of the soul in terms of worldly notions of gender and the understanding of women in terms of the characteristics of the feminine soul, led by circular reasoning to the conclusion that women were more likely than men to submit to Satan (56).... During the 17th century, people viewed the devil as physical creature. ... After the trials had been shut down, the clergy started using the notion that Satan was not a physical entity. ...

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Abrams states that "no less characteristic of romantic theory is a set of alternative analogies implying that poetry is an interaction, the joint effect of inner and outer, mind and object, passion and the perceptions of sense" (51). ... As a result, Shelley's use of metaphor "seems fairly obvious: it is a mediator between physical object and percept. It separates man from its physical environment, but nevertheless grants its perception" (Knirsch). ...

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Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, but sadly it is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Most define abuse as physical, but it can also be psychological. Emotional abuse can cause just as much, if not more damage. It is difficult to understand why some chose to live in fear of the per...

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She specifically mentions certain body parts, immediately humanizing the prisoner without giving the reader any real defining characteristics. ... The reader is given no information regarding his physical health, though already they paint a picture in their minds of a broken man. ...

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Hume starts by explaining definitions of causes and characteristics that make up the popular definition of cause. ... Nevertheless, necessity only exists in the mind, not in physical material objects. ...

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